Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!sunc.osc.edu!malgudi!caen!ox.com!mudos!mju From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: CheckTD, final author comments Keywords: Shareware Message-ID: Date: 24 Oct 90 23:31:44 GMT References: Organization: The Programmers' Pit Stop, +1 313 665 2832 Lines: 23 roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes: > files into individual directories, I then had to rename all the info > files before I could repack the whole assortment into a ZIPfile. Eh? Since when does ZIP not handle subdirectories? > A collection such as this is much easier to handle if you needn't take > embedded pathnames into account. Nonsense. Users should get used to unpacking things with "x//" or "-d" (pick an archiver...); not storing subdirectories was a shortcoming of the original ARC that we needn't propogate any farther than necessary. > BTW, SHEZ was not able to see the path information in your Zoofile, I'd guess because it uses the novice-mode commands, instead of the expert-mode commands. -- Marc Unangst | mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | "Bus error: passengers dumped" ...!umich!leebai!mudos!mju |